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Is all publicity good publicity? How the first editor of the Freethinker attracted the public’s attention

  • byClare Stainthorp
  • 23 September 2022
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How G.W. Foote's early tactics of courting notoriety in the Freethinker may have helped to increase its circulation and to support the freethought movement.
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The Satanic Verses; free speech in the Freethinker

  • byEmma Park
  • 13 August 2022
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Bibliography of Freethinker articles on free thought and free speech - in honour of Salman Rushdie.
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‘An animal is a description of ancient worlds’: interview with Richard Dawkins

  • byEmma Park
  • 1 July 2022
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The Freethinker speaks to Dawkins about genes, memes, the scientific method, political controversies and more.
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On trial for blasphemy: the Freethinker’s first editor and offensive cartoons

  • byBob Forder
  • 23 June 2022
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George William Foote was born in Plymouth in humble circumstances on 11 January 1850.  His father died when…
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Blasphemy Month at the Freethinker

  • byEmma Park
  • 7 June 2022
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June is Blasphemy Month at the Freethinker. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines blasphemy as ‘profane talk of…
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The price of criticising Islam in northern Nigeria: imprisonment or death

  • byEmma Park
  • 6 June 2022
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The humanist Mubarak Bala has been sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment in Kano, Nigeria, for blasphemous Facebook posts. In the same region, a Christian college student has been murdered for supposed blasphemy.
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